Andreas Papandreou

Andreas Papandreou (5 February 1919-23 June 1996) was Prime Minister of Greece from 21 October 1981 to 2 July 1989 (succeeding Georgios Rallis and preceding Tzannis Tzannetakis) and from 13 October 1993 to 17 January 1996 (succeeding Konstantinos Mitsotakis and preceding Costas Simitis). He was a member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.

Biography
Andreas Papandreou was born in Chios, Greece in 1919, the son of Georgios Papandreou. He studied at Athens University and received a doctorate from Harvard, after which he became professor of economics at the University of Minnesota in 1951, and at Berkeley in 1955. He returned to Greece in 1960, and became a deputy for his father's Center Union, joining his government as Minister of the Presidency from 1964 to 1965. After the military coup of 1967 he was exiled to Sweden and then Canada. He founded the Panhellenic Resistance Movement in 1968, and headed the Panhellenic Socialist Movement after his return in 1974. He was a maverick and populist Prime Minister with an anti-Western streak, who had a penchant for quarrels with his neighbors. This did not prevent him from obtaining large funds from the European Economic Community and the United States, using Greece's position as a frontline state against the communist Warsaw Pact during the Cold War for all its worth. Many of these funds were dissipated by corruption and maintaining his own nepotist power structure: his son George Papandreou serveda s Education Minister, while his wife's cousin Georgios Liani was Sports Minister. More importantly, his controversial wife, a former American nude model, was head of his private office and thus controlled all access to him. Ultimately, this proved too much even for his own party which he had controlled so tightly. As his health deteriorated and her power increased, and as he tried hard to have her accepted as his successor, the party rebelled and replaced him with Costas Simitis as Prime Minister and leader of PASOK on 18 January 1996.